Ubuntu and HiDPI
Tips for making ubuntu usable on a HiDPI screen.
Unity
Unity has good HiDPI support, with a zoom-level found under screen settings.
Due to some bug (?) Nautilus (the file-browser) is not affected by the set zoom-level after login,
(perhaps because Nautilus starts up early in the login-process and runs in the background).
Quitting nautilus with nautilus -q fixes the problem,
so I made a script with only this line and made it run on login by adding it to Autostart (search in dash).
KDE
KDE also has quite good HiDPI support. The easiest here seems to be to set “Force font dpi” to a higher value (normal is 96, 180 is a nice value). This is located under System Settings -> Application Appearance -> Fonts. Under Icons -> Advanced in the same dialog, you can upsize the all icons as well.
Applications
Firefox
In about:config, set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to required zoom level.
Chrome/Chromium
Start chrome with google-chrome --force-device-scale-factor=1.5.
This can be added to Exec-line in the google-chrome/ chromium-browser .desktop-file
located under /usr/share/applications.
Sources:
- http://askubuntu.com/questions/532988/font-problem-in-nautilus-with-hidpi
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
